11-Yr-Old North Charlotte Girl Describes How She Fought Off Would-Be Kidnapper at Bus Stop

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An 11-year-old girl is talking about how she fought off a would-be kidnapper in North Charlotte. Police are looking for the man she says tried to snatch her, right after she got off a school bus.

“I couldn’t really think. I just thought I had to act fast or else something bad would happen to me,” the girl told WCCB Charlotte.

The attempted kidnapping happened at Sunwalk Court and Suntrace Way around 3:40 on Tuesday afternoon.

“I see a man and he’s running towards me,” the girl says.

At first she thought he must just be in a hurry.

“And then, all of a sudden, he grabs me by my arm,” she says.

At that moment, she didn’t know what to do at first. Then she took action.

“I hit him… in his… area,” she says.

She says he fell, and she ran home and called her mom.

“He didn’t cry or wimper. He didn’t do anything,” she explains.

The girl says the friends she had gotten off the bus with had already left by the time that man approached.

She says she had never seen him before.

Police canvassed the area but couldn’t find the man. Added police were in the area on Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators believe the man ran away. They don’t have a great description of him, only that he’s a white man, around 50-years-old, six feet tall, with a beard, and wearing all black.